Blessed Sara Salkahazi is scheduled to be beatified on September 17, 2006, at Budapest's St. Stephen Basilica. Salkahazi was a Hungarian nun that saved the lives of dozens of Jews during World War II. She is an example of the sacrificial love that Jesus calls us to show to the whole world.On Dec. 27, 1944, Sara Salkahazi was killed by the Arrow Cross - the Hungarian allies of the Nazis, for hiding Jews in the building used by her religious community, Sisters of Social Service.
The coming beatification will be the first held in Hungary since 1083, when Hungary's first king, St. Stephen, was beatified along with his son, St. Imre, and St. Gellert, an Italian bishop who helped convert Hungarians to Christianity. Because Pope Benedict XVI started allowing beatifications in other countries and not just the Vatican, the beatification will be the first in Hungary in centuries. It was the custom for hundreds of years to celebrate beatifications in Rome. Now, canonizations will be held in Rome, but Pope Benedict XVI is allowing beatifications in other parts of the world.
She will be the first Hungarian beatified that was not a member of the aristocracy or royalty.
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She will be the first Hungarian beatified that was not a member of the aristocracy or royalty
I can't really say why, but this shocked me completely.
What a wonderful, saintly example Sister Sara provided, by the way.
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